Friday, January 4, 2013

HK film The Storm starring Andy Lau has been shooting for nearly
two months and the scenes are getting more and more dangerous and
violent. Following Andy's car flipping scene in North Point earlier,
yesterday there was a "manic" (Ray Lui) leading a gang to 'blow up'
Sheung Wan. There were bullets and flames raging everywhere, similar to a
war zone. Even if the bystanders knew its only filming, they were still
frightened and covered their ears.

At the scene, the big
bearded crook Ray Lui and the Special Duties Unit (SDU) were in a gun
fight. Ray and his gang got out of their cars in masks and opened fire
at the SDU, very fierce and powerful. There was smoke and raining
bullets everywhere, even the action director Chin Ka Lok complained the
gunshots were too loud and asked to tone it down.

After the
intense gun fight, there was a car explosion scene that caused a very
loud sound. Everyone at the scene covered their ears and coincidentally
the nearby kindergarten classes were just dismissed from school. The
children were very frightened as parents quickly covered their ears and
left the location. Fortunately the filming progress went smoothly.

Ray
said: "There is definitely danger in gun fight and explosion scenes.
Because HK films are famous for explosions and large blasts, it won't be
a good watch without some powerful scenes. This scene was done on a
busy street, there were so many workers and neighbors around. I was
really scared too, but fortunately the action director, Chin Ka Lok, was
very professional and calculated everything accurately. The explosion
scene only took 1 take to complete. We already got into our positions
prior to cameras rolling, the positioning must be accurate, otherwise it
could get very dangerous." He reveals he already rehearsed for this
scene several days before for 4-5 hours.